Department of Culture & Media

Media studies, film studies and cultural studies have converged in contemporary life
to become a timely, interdisciplinary area of study. The program engages questions
and issues that deal with both the historical development and cultural consequences
of media and globalization on everyday social and political life. Within the department,
there are two BA programs to choose from: Cultural Studies or Media and Film Studies.

Our objective is to provide you with the analytic skill, critical vocabulary, practical
sensitivity, and research know-how to make better sense of the rapid changes happening
in the global and media landscape, which will empower you to become participants of
change.

In a job market that demands persons with flexible minds, intellectual and practical
savvy, the Department of Culture & Media is the perfect fit for our changing world.

In pursuing an MFA in Film and Media Production at the University of Texas, Marylhurst
has prepared me to take my studies further by pushing me to critically unpack film
and literature, to see it through a variety of lenses in order to better understand
what it reflects of ourselves and thus gain a deeper understanding of my own creative
process..